About this role
Salary: £100,000 - 110,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience in a hands-on engineering and leadership role with significant technical ownership
- Knowledge of AI in engineering, AI-assisted coding, and automation
- Strong hands-on development skills with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience building APIs, backend services, and cloud-based applications
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue
- Solid understanding of system design, databases, performance, and scalability
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, as well as CI/CD and production monitoring
- Track record of improving existing systems while continuing to deliver useful features
- Approachable leadership style, with experience mentoring engineers and working across teams
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery from initial design through development, release, and ongoing operation
- Stay hands-on with coding, architecture, and code reviews
- Help evolve the platform, balancing new features with reliability, maintainability, and technical debt
- Coach engineers and encourage collaborative problem-solving
- Work closely with product and business stakeholders to turn user needs into practical technical solutions
- Improve development workflows, automated testing, deployment processes, and monitoring
- Make clear technical decisions and explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical colleagues
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Frontend
- JavaScript
- React
- TypeScript
- Vue
- NodeJS
- Java
- Fullstack
More
Were recruiting a Full Stack Engineering Lead (TypeScript, React, Node) for a technology-for-good business in central London, near Holborn. The role combines technical leadership, practical engineering, and social purpose. The business has investment for growth and technical evolution, with a friendly, pragmatic leadership team and opportunities to collaborate and stay current with AI and modern technology. We offer a salary of £100,000–£110,000 plus benefits, hybrid working with two days per week in London, and the opportunity to shape technical direction while staying close to the code. The product supports people who deliver care.
last updated 46 week of 2026